"Adams was responding to ‘Star Wars’ actor Ahmed Best (best known as the voice of Jar Jar Binks), who is black, tweeting about his struggles to get work in Hollywood compared to ‘Girls’ creator and star Lena Dunham, who is white."
It's possible that Lena Dunham simply has superior left-wing cred.
Has Ahmed Best tried raping his little brother (the way Dunham did her little sister)? Maybe that would help?
Also ..
"responding to ‘Star Wars’ actor Ahmed Best" (sic)
The Jar Jar guy?? They've erroneously put the quotes around Star Wars, instead of around 'actor'.
I don’t like Lena Dunham and think she is a shitty actress, but she absolutely has her finger on the pulse of the fat fem demographic, which is a huge media market as childless “cat moms” who love Ben and Jerry exponentially grow their numbers. She has a market and has created strong branding. There is huge value in that. The voice actor from Star Wars doesn’t seem to understand that element of the business in which he works.
I couldn’t tell ya. I haven’t eaten it since the 1990’s once I realized the owners (now Unilever or some other conglomerate) were batshit insane hippies.
Ben and Jerry's is fantastic ice cream but it is admittedly overpriced. But they can charge whatever they want for it now because I will never buy a pint of it again after their "dismantle white supremacy" nonsense
religion wise but not genetics. I love the mental gymnastics where people try to explain how someone is not ethnically Jewish because their mother was not Jewish.
Scott Adams "Dilbert" reflects the reality of the technology company - there really aren't many black people. This is true. He gets most of his ideas from people in companies like the one he depicts. I've worked in technology for (oh, God) forty years and I don't need a calculator to count the black people I've worked with.
Story: when I moved from Florida to Virginia, I was teamed with a guy who grew up in St Louis. He was always well-dressed, well-spoken, polite, and completely up on the part of the product that he specialized in. Our skill-sets overlapped, although I was much senior to him in the company, and he took everything I provided him in the way of knowledge and experience. I took a vacation; when I came back he reported on what happened while I was gone and had done everything I would have done in those situations. "Wow, I can go on vacation and here's somebody who completely has my back." That's when he told me he was leaving the company.
My colleague was black. Longest time I spent working directly with a black person. We had more in common than not, up to and including coming from a large family with a hard-working father and a religious mother who did not have any stupid babies. And I miss him. He was GREAT!
He's said that the aggressive attacks on perceived racism is actually why his comic is almost entirely white people. All of his characters have some sort of massive flaw as a way to enable comedy.
When he added the first minority character, Asok the Indian intern, he gave him the softest flaw he could think of: Being inexperienced. He was even depicted as being brilliant and well-adjusted, just too willing to trust his co-workers.
Predictably, the race baiters bit his head off for it.
Like the job I had in the shipping yard where another young worker was given the task of fetching "the pipe stretcher". Apparently this was done regularly, where everybody in the plant knew the joke, and around and around he went.
I was never tasked with this. I suspect it was because my dad was Production Supervisor. But this guy's dad was the Plant Engineer. I finally decided that my dad was liked better than his dad...
Hell, even minor characters like Loud Howard, The Boss's Boss, Techno-Bill or Phil, Prince of Insufficient light would all be obviously considered offensive. The only character who doesn't have a glaring personality flaw is Ted the Generic Guy, and he exists primarily to be fired or hurt.
I'm pretty sure Jar Jar was just a flop, in fact, I would've guessed his shitty voice was done by computer. Yousa make bad mistakes, yousa find no work!
Jar jar wasn't the main reason. George Lucas's lack of anybody around to shape his ideas into something good (like the OT) was the main reason. Jar jar was just a symptom.
That's a tough call. Maybe you haven't seen them in awhile. Rey was bad in an unbelievable way but Anakin was pure cringe.
Rey dominating force power that she pulls from her ass was stupid but Yoda who was 900 years old and dies in empire is a saber gymnast only 20 years prior.
Padme's story was complete nonsense just like the black guy in sequels.
WTF was that? I always assumed that Yoda didn't use a saber, or really any weapon. "The force is a powerful ally", and all that. I figured he'd get attacked and simply shrug it off. Saber swing? Deflected by seemingly nothing. Blasters? Miss. He doesn't need to fight. That's how much of a badass he is.
What did Lucas do? A tiny saber that made no sense and jumping through the air.
What made the OT good was the people around Lucas that shaped his ideas. Formed them into what they became. The force being a more mystical thing was not Lucas' idea, for example. Which is why it became 'midichlorians' in the PT. The guy's got a good framework of ideas, but his details and execution are severely lacking.
I watched UPN a lot in 2000 as a preteen (it had wwf smackdown, needed it) and can confirm that all out of nowhere around that time ALL the commercials and original programming suddenly turned very very pandering to black audiences
UPN was originally intended to the new home for Star Trek, which was the crown jewel in the Paramount vault. I think the network even launched with the pilot of the Voyager series.
Too bad Voyager was a huge wet fart because it pushed Rick Berman's faggy virtue signaling to new heights. It had already been growing like a cancer during his tenure at the end of TNG and throughout DS9 (tho I'm quite okay with Jazdia Dax and the first lesbian kiss landmark).
But making that dumb raspy-voiced bitch captain and then making a BLACK VULCAN of all things was absolutely retarded. Oh yes, let's not forget the Space Indian. And first woman engineer who was also a super warrior Klingon because women can do it all, don't you know. Let the white guys be underlings and comic relief.
Even bringing on Jeri Ryan and her huge tits couldn't save the show, and they made her suit so tight in an attempt to lure horny nerds to watch that the poor girl would actually pass out because she couldn't breath.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. One of the earliest examples of Get Woke, Go Broke.
Jeri Ryan indirectly, but very clearly, gave us Obama. Her messy divorce ushered in then unknown Obama into the US senate and into national prominence.
His 2004 campaign for the Senate, against Barack Obama, received widespread media attention for the disclosure of sealed custody documents stemming from his divorce from actress Jeri Ryan. The unsealing of those documents, detailing allegations that Ryan had pressured his wife to perform sexual acts in public, led to Ryan's withdrawal from the campaign.[2]
To be fair, there were several episodes that were almost worth watching. None that made the cut, though.
Black Vulcan I don't mind.
Chakotay was a generic Native American of no particular tribe... because they hired a native culture consultant who was a total fraud.
Was Torres a super warrior Klingon? Above average, I suppose...
Anyhow, I think the Tuvix episode is a great example of why Voyager fails. The episode should have been about the moral choice of that situation. Instead, it's mostly about Tuvix as a person, and we have almost no discussion of the morality - Janeway just says "I have two lives to think about here", and that's that. There's some attempt at the drama of this innocent and unique person being murdered, but no real argument. BTW, she actually has three people to consider - Neelix, Tuvok, and Tuvix.
It's the same with the Borg alliance plot.
Borg: Janeway, we need you to help us develop a biological weapon, to help us do genocide on species 8472, in a war which we, the Borg, totally started.
Janeway: I don't know, I don't really trust you.
Borg: We'll promise you safe passage through our space, so that your crew of ~150 can get home ~10 years sooner.
They forgot they were making a sci-fi and it simply became a weak drama set in space. In TNG you have a similar episode to Tuvix in the episode where Data's status as property is put to trial. They actually made compelling and emotionally moving arguments for both sides of the equation and you walk away from the episode a bigger person for having contemplated a new philosophical quandary that we might not have to face in our lifetimes. That's what sci-fi is supposed to do: force us to consider new ideas. You take that away and all you're left with is a shitty fucking space drama.
Ahahahhaa oh man. I did forget about him. Ohhh Chakotay or however the fuck his name is spelled. I loved his weird indian space visions, as if north american indians were a spacefaring people. Bonkers.
Do not let them tell you that discrimination is illegal. Here Michael Dell announcing it.
"Dell Technologies plans to significantly change the diversity of its 157,000 employees over the next decade by making women account for 50 percent of its global workforce, up from 30 percent today. ... Michael Dell's commitment to hiring more women is yet another example of his leadership in our industry.”
I remember working at a computer shop a client had one hell of a time with Dell, dead out of the box but it was sitting in the box for months. He went on a 30 minute rant about the run-around they gave him, crazy ranting and theatrics, but never directed at us. And that man got his computer refunded months after the return period. We rmaed it. I can't think about Dell without picturing that guy flopping on the floor like a caught fish with a hook in is mouth.
That wasn't because she was white oh, it was because she was a chick and probably very connected. Here in Canada, if you're a writer for film, theatre, or anything else, you have to be a woman, a person of colour, or gay in order to get a grant. If you are a white straight man, you can forget about it. It will never happen.
To be honest I wasn't totally on board with the TV version of Dilbert, and some of the cast members (Kathy Griffin for one) are impossible to imagine on it anymore.
But he's not wrong about UPN. The way they killed themselves was embarrassing, and now that they've bought Spike you can expect that to die too—not that Spike was Spike anymore for about a decade anyway.
I liked Spike better. The early days of Spike were a Wild West of great content: fun experimental stuff that didn't care about offending anyone and was unique.
Love how the lefties are out try to say this never happens or is illegal.
I used to work in college athletics and was told by a boss that we needed more diversity and by that he meant blacks as we had plenty of female representation despite this being college athletics, which is naturally pretty male dominated field. He preceded to create a new Assistant AD role and interview only black males for it. One of the three was a friend of his he got hired and eventually demoted down to being Assistant AD in name only with no real job responsibilities after a few years.
This was pretty common in the field and there were plenty of times where I would ask about an open job or one of my buddies would and be told they had already determined they would be hiring a female or minority for the role. Now no HR person would ever officially tell you that but the field was so small that you would know the person hiring or someone else that knew them and they would usually tell you not to waste your time.
The article strangely missed out on the massive wave of testimonies saying they have also been passed over explicitly for being white. Read the replies to the "massive red pill incoming" tweet. It's great.
He went on to say he lost the show due to the time slot change and the low ratings to not get renewed. He lost the slot to a show called Randi or something, but as ratings got better they decided to focus on a stereotypical ‘black’ audience for business reasons. He may or may not have lost promotions due to being white in the 80’s - he claims he was directly told this, but no proof.
Well, this happened a long time ago. No, he lost the show first - perhaps they were already switchig to a black audience and they were not Dilbert fans...he lost the renewal due to a time slot change more than anything.
I would add, if Dilbert the cartoon were any good, another network would have picked it up. I’m a fan of Scott, but I’m not so sure that show was good.
oooo I totally remember Dilbert ending and being confused why because it was pretty good. I was still in high school and I liked it back then. Since entering the job world and watching old episodes everything just got better.
And yeah UPN did kinda make a turn for more black orientated content if I remember correctly.
He did. It ran for two seasons. Started off kind of funny but deviated into ridiculous plots that lost the “office humor” of Dilbert in the second season.
Not a S W fan, but were I a “black” actor I’d be embarrassed to admit I’d voiced such a character as Jar Jar Binks. I’d have fired my agent for getting the audition.
He has clarified that he was not directly fired, but passed over a promotion because they wanted a non-white for "diversity" reasons, for which he left the job to go somewhere he COULD advance.
"Adams was responding to ‘Star Wars’ actor Ahmed Best (best known as the voice of Jar Jar Binks), who is black, tweeting about his struggles to get work in Hollywood compared to ‘Girls’ creator and star Lena Dunham, who is white."
It's possible that Lena Dunham simply has superior left-wing cred.
Has Ahmed Best tried raping his little brother (the way Dunham did her little sister)? Maybe that would help?
Also ..
"responding to ‘Star Wars’ actor Ahmed Best" (sic)
The Jar Jar guy?? They've erroneously put the quotes around Star Wars, instead of around 'actor'.
This happens more than people like to admit. And is a sign of power to those assclowns
The basis of all projection is a black heart that loves evil.
I don’t like Lena Dunham and think she is a shitty actress, but she absolutely has her finger on the pulse of the fat fem demographic, which is a huge media market as childless “cat moms” who love Ben and Jerry exponentially grow their numbers. She has a market and has created strong branding. There is huge value in that. The voice actor from Star Wars doesn’t seem to understand that element of the business in which he works.
She also comes from HUGE amounts of money and connections. That's all that matters in the entertainment industry.
looks up her ancestry
Every single time
I couldn’t tell ya. I haven’t eaten it since the 1990’s once I realized the owners (now Unilever or some other conglomerate) were batshit insane hippies.
Ben and Jerry's is fantastic ice cream but it is admittedly overpriced. But they can charge whatever they want for it now because I will never buy a pint of it again after their "dismantle white supremacy" nonsense
Weird how Samuel L Jackson doesn't seem to have a problem. He even got his own special purple lightsaber because he asked for one.
I imagine anyone would have trouble getting roles in Hollywood when your resume lists Jar Jar Binks.
But he's better off than the (white) kid who played the young Anakin Skywalker. Kid got bullied so much at school he was suicidal.
Not sure why they should be near suicidal because George Lucas can't write a decent script.
You noticed?
How dare you!
oi m8 u got a loicense for noticing coincidences?
She’s mostly Irish but part Jewish too
This is truth. Judaism is a matrilineal society.
religion wise but not genetics. I love the mental gymnastics where people try to explain how someone is not ethnically Jewish because their mother was not Jewish.
Scott Adams "Dilbert" reflects the reality of the technology company - there really aren't many black people. This is true. He gets most of his ideas from people in companies like the one he depicts. I've worked in technology for (oh, God) forty years and I don't need a calculator to count the black people I've worked with.
Story: when I moved from Florida to Virginia, I was teamed with a guy who grew up in St Louis. He was always well-dressed, well-spoken, polite, and completely up on the part of the product that he specialized in. Our skill-sets overlapped, although I was much senior to him in the company, and he took everything I provided him in the way of knowledge and experience. I took a vacation; when I came back he reported on what happened while I was gone and had done everything I would have done in those situations. "Wow, I can go on vacation and here's somebody who completely has my back." That's when he told me he was leaving the company.
My colleague was black. Longest time I spent working directly with a black person. We had more in common than not, up to and including coming from a large family with a hard-working father and a religious mother who did not have any stupid babies. And I miss him. He was GREAT!
He's said that the aggressive attacks on perceived racism is actually why his comic is almost entirely white people. All of his characters have some sort of massive flaw as a way to enable comedy.
When he added the first minority character, Asok the Indian intern, he gave him the softest flaw he could think of: Being inexperienced. He was even depicted as being brilliant and well-adjusted, just too willing to trust his co-workers.
Predictably, the race baiters bit his head off for it.
Like the job I had in the shipping yard where another young worker was given the task of fetching "the pipe stretcher". Apparently this was done regularly, where everybody in the plant knew the joke, and around and around he went.
I was never tasked with this. I suspect it was because my dad was Production Supervisor. But this guy's dad was the Plant Engineer. I finally decided that my dad was liked better than his dad...
Bobby b
Get the breastplate stretcher!
How epic would it be if Bobby-b bot was on .win?
(in Robert Baratheon's booming voice)
"GO GET ME THE BREASTPLATE STRETCHER!!"
Makes me think of "carried out on his shield"...
Dilbert: socially inept, constantly taken advantage of
Alice: prone to fits of rage
Wally: professionally lazy
Asok: naive and poor
Carol: low-key psychopath
Pointy Haired Boss: Unscrupulous moron undeserving of his status
Dogbert: conniving exploiter
Catbert: sadist
Yeah, it's hard to imagine who you could make black without pissing people off. Galbrush Effect in force.
Hell, even minor characters like Loud Howard, The Boss's Boss, Techno-Bill or Phil, Prince of Insufficient light would all be obviously considered offensive. The only character who doesn't have a glaring personality flaw is Ted the Generic Guy, and he exists primarily to be fired or hurt.
I'm pretty sure Jar Jar was just a flop, in fact, I would've guessed his shitty voice was done by computer. Yousa make bad mistakes, yousa find no work!
Jar jar wasn't the main reason. George Lucas's lack of anybody around to shape his ideas into something good (like the OT) was the main reason. Jar jar was just a symptom.
The prequels are Shakespeare compared to the last 3 movies.
Last 3 movies? Of what do you speak?
That's a tough call. Maybe you haven't seen them in awhile. Rey was bad in an unbelievable way but Anakin was pure cringe.
Rey dominating force power that she pulls from her ass was stupid but Yoda who was 900 years old and dies in empire is a saber gymnast only 20 years prior.
Padme's story was complete nonsense just like the black guy in sequels.
Could go on and on
He jumped around like a flea!
WTF was that? I always assumed that Yoda didn't use a saber, or really any weapon. "The force is a powerful ally", and all that. I figured he'd get attacked and simply shrug it off. Saber swing? Deflected by seemingly nothing. Blasters? Miss. He doesn't need to fight. That's how much of a badass he is.
What did Lucas do? A tiny saber that made no sense and jumping through the air.
What made the OT good was the people around Lucas that shaped his ideas. Formed them into what they became. The force being a more mystical thing was not Lucas' idea, for example. Which is why it became 'midichlorians' in the PT. The guy's got a good framework of ideas, but his details and execution are severely lacking.
The Force Awakens was passable. The other two were complete train wrecks, save for the Kylo/Rey storyline in TLJ which was, again, passable.
I watched UPN a lot in 2000 as a preteen (it had wwf smackdown, needed it) and can confirm that all out of nowhere around that time ALL the commercials and original programming suddenly turned very very pandering to black audiences
my brother & i called it BET2 back then
I called it the under privileged network.
Nah that was “the WB” (Warner Bros) network. They used the same frog who sang in the old Foghorn Leghorn shorts
UPN was originally intended to the new home for Star Trek, which was the crown jewel in the Paramount vault. I think the network even launched with the pilot of the Voyager series.
Too bad Voyager was a huge wet fart because it pushed Rick Berman's faggy virtue signaling to new heights. It had already been growing like a cancer during his tenure at the end of TNG and throughout DS9 (tho I'm quite okay with Jazdia Dax and the first lesbian kiss landmark).
But making that dumb raspy-voiced bitch captain and then making a BLACK VULCAN of all things was absolutely retarded. Oh yes, let's not forget the Space Indian. And first woman engineer who was also a super warrior Klingon because women can do it all, don't you know. Let the white guys be underlings and comic relief.
Even bringing on Jeri Ryan and her huge tits couldn't save the show, and they made her suit so tight in an attempt to lure horny nerds to watch that the poor girl would actually pass out because she couldn't breath.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. One of the earliest examples of Get Woke, Go Broke.
Jeri Ryan indirectly, but very clearly, gave us Obama. Her messy divorce ushered in then unknown Obama into the US senate and into national prominence.
i watched all of Voyager up into season 4.
To be fair, there were several episodes that were almost worth watching. None that made the cut, though.
Black Vulcan I don't mind. Chakotay was a generic Native American of no particular tribe... because they hired a native culture consultant who was a total fraud. Was Torres a super warrior Klingon? Above average, I suppose...
Anyhow, I think the Tuvix episode is a great example of why Voyager fails. The episode should have been about the moral choice of that situation. Instead, it's mostly about Tuvix as a person, and we have almost no discussion of the morality - Janeway just says "I have two lives to think about here", and that's that. There's some attempt at the drama of this innocent and unique person being murdered, but no real argument. BTW, she actually has three people to consider - Neelix, Tuvok, and Tuvix.
It's the same with the Borg alliance plot.
Borg: Janeway, we need you to help us develop a biological weapon, to help us do genocide on species 8472, in a war which we, the Borg, totally started.
Janeway: I don't know, I don't really trust you.
Borg: We'll promise you safe passage through our space, so that your crew of ~150 can get home ~10 years sooner.
Janeway: Genocide it is!
They forgot they were making a sci-fi and it simply became a weak drama set in space. In TNG you have a similar episode to Tuvix in the episode where Data's status as property is put to trial. They actually made compelling and emotionally moving arguments for both sides of the equation and you walk away from the episode a bigger person for having contemplated a new philosophical quandary that we might not have to face in our lifetimes. That's what sci-fi is supposed to do: force us to consider new ideas. You take that away and all you're left with is a shitty fucking space drama.
Ahahahhaa oh man. I did forget about him. Ohhh Chakotay or however the fuck his name is spelled. I loved his weird indian space visions, as if north american indians were a spacefaring people. Bonkers.
Do not let them tell you that discrimination is illegal. Here Michael Dell announcing it.
"Dell Technologies plans to significantly change the diversity of its 157,000 employees over the next decade by making women account for 50 percent of its global workforce, up from 30 percent today. ... Michael Dell's commitment to hiring more women is yet another example of his leadership in our industry.”
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=WUT7XoKjJO6-0PEP4o2HgAw&q=michael+dell+on+women+hiring&oq=michael+dell+on+women+hiring&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzoFCAAQsQM6BQgAEIMBOgIIADoECAAQAzoGCAAQFhAeOggIABAWEAoQHlD7Blj3WmCTXGgAcAB4AIABc4gBxRGSAQQyNC40mAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpeg&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwjCs8C92KnqAhVuHzQIHeLGAcAQ4dUDCAw&uact=5
What the hell? Sending women to work was basically the downfall of our society, and now we are ramping it up? Thanks a lot, Dell.
Remind me not to buy a Dell product the next time I need a new computer.
Do you really need a reminder not to buy a Dell? I actually didn't think they were still around, honestly.
I remember working at a computer shop a client had one hell of a time with Dell, dead out of the box but it was sitting in the box for months. He went on a 30 minute rant about the run-around they gave him, crazy ranting and theatrics, but never directed at us. And that man got his computer refunded months after the return period. We rmaed it. I can't think about Dell without picturing that guy flopping on the floor like a caught fish with a hook in is mouth.
I buy used Dell Workstations on eBay. They've been rock solid for me.
For laptops, I prefer used Thinkpads.
I won’t touch a Thinkpad since the Lenovo buyout of IBM’s PC division.
Then they merged into the Can't Win network.
For a guy self described as "left of Bernie" you'd think he'd be pleased.
Him. "Brianna" Wu is a dude.
That wasn't because she was white oh, it was because she was a chick and probably very connected. Here in Canada, if you're a writer for film, theatre, or anything else, you have to be a woman, a person of colour, or gay in order to get a grant. If you are a white straight man, you can forget about it. It will never happen.
Black Panther is a garbage film yet got nominated for Best Picture.
Meh it probably deserved a nod for visual effects or whatever. It was well put together technically. But yeah not best pic.
I forgot about the sister rape, and I left the other thing up to people's Jedi abilities.
The color they want is Red. Get your commie card upgraded and bang. All the work you need
Lol, you can't simultaneously (coherently) call him a liar and also say that he should have created more "diverse content". Pick a lane, dipshits.
Should’ve made a black pointy haired boss
To be honest I wasn't totally on board with the TV version of Dilbert, and some of the cast members (Kathy Griffin for one) are impossible to imagine on it anymore.
But he's not wrong about UPN. The way they killed themselves was embarrassing, and now that they've bought Spike you can expect that to die too—not that Spike was Spike anymore for about a decade anyway.
I remember when Spike was TNN.
AKA, the Wrestling and Star Trek TNG. Channel
I liked Spike better. The early days of Spike were a Wild West of great content: fun experimental stuff that didn't care about offending anyone and was unique.
Doesn't matter who they target. Anything made with a leftist mindset is shit.
Love how the lefties are out try to say this never happens or is illegal.
I used to work in college athletics and was told by a boss that we needed more diversity and by that he meant blacks as we had plenty of female representation despite this being college athletics, which is naturally pretty male dominated field. He preceded to create a new Assistant AD role and interview only black males for it. One of the three was a friend of his he got hired and eventually demoted down to being Assistant AD in name only with no real job responsibilities after a few years.
This was pretty common in the field and there were plenty of times where I would ask about an open job or one of my buddies would and be told they had already determined they would be hiring a female or minority for the role. Now no HR person would ever officially tell you that but the field was so small that you would know the person hiring or someone else that knew them and they would usually tell you not to waste your time.
So they called him a liar and tacitly agreed with him, in one go?
The article strangely missed out on the massive wave of testimonies saying they have also been passed over explicitly for being white. Read the replies to the "massive red pill incoming" tweet. It's great.
He went on to say he lost the show due to the time slot change and the low ratings to not get renewed. He lost the slot to a show called Randi or something, but as ratings got better they decided to focus on a stereotypical ‘black’ audience for business reasons. He may or may not have lost promotions due to being white in the 80’s - he claims he was directly told this, but no proof.
Well, this happened a long time ago. No, he lost the show first - perhaps they were already switchig to a black audience and they were not Dilbert fans...he lost the renewal due to a time slot change more than anything.
I would add, if Dilbert the cartoon were any good, another network would have picked it up. I’m a fan of Scott, but I’m not so sure that show was good.
I watched it. It was okay. At the time it had a lot of great shows to compete with. Today I'd take it over most shit on TV. Maybe 6 / 10.
I’ve watched it. It started off okay, but particularly in the second season it deviated from the “office humor” plots and got ridiculous.
oooo I totally remember Dilbert ending and being confused why because it was pretty good. I was still in high school and I liked it back then. Since entering the job world and watching old episodes everything just got better.
And yeah UPN did kinda make a turn for more black orientated content if I remember correctly.
He had a TV show?
He did. It ran for two seasons. Started off kind of funny but deviated into ridiculous plots that lost the “office humor” of Dilbert in the second season.
It wasn't bad. It had a lot of good moments, honestly. But it did get pretty quickly into weird plot arcs.
Not a S W fan, but were I a “black” actor I’d be embarrassed to admit I’d voiced such a character as Jar Jar Binks. I’d have fired my agent for getting the audition.
Catbert is all the diversity I need.
https://kekpe.pe/i/5efb9f806042a.jpg
He has clarified that he was not directly fired, but passed over a promotion because they wanted a non-white for "diversity" reasons, for which he left the job to go somewhere he COULD advance.